Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words.... Whoever writes English is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“What is above all needed is to let the meaning choose the word, and not the other way around. In prose, the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Newspeak is the only language in the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year?” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Political language . . . is designed to make its lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The inflated style is itself a kind of euphemism. A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“We’re destroying words—scores of them, hundreds of them, every day. We’re” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The grammar of Newspeak had two outstanding peculiarities. The first of these was an almost complete interchangeability between different parts of speech.… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Never use a long… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“I dreamed I dwelt in marble halls, And woke to find it true; I wasn't born for an age like this; Was… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“George Orwell, on how to avoid thinking when you speak: You can shirk it by simply throwing your mind open and letting… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outlines and covering up the details...” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“You don’t grasp the beauty of the destruction of words. Do you know that Newspeak is the only language in the world… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“This accounted not only for the habit of abbreviating whenever possible, but also for the almost exaggerated care that was taken to… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A man may take to drink because he feels himself to he a failure, and then fail all the more completely because… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible... Thus, political language has to consist largely of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Newspeak was designed not to extend but to diminish the range of thought, and this purpose was indirectly assisted by cutting the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It was given out that the animals there practised cannibalism, tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes, and had their females in common. This was… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had been running… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“if you took 1 Corinthians, chapter thirteen, and in every verse wrote 'money' instead of 'charity', the chapter had ten times as much meaning… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Whitman himself "accepted" a great deal that his contemporaries found unmentionable. For he is not only writing of the prairie, he also wanders through… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“But I tell you, Winston, that reality is not external. Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Whatever the Party holds to… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“And the people under the sky were also very much the same...everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
